dot_fennel | [music] BILLY CORGAN - The Future Embrace (Warner Bros.)

There's a song by Dykehouse (apparently the singer's real last name) called "Chain Smoking" that I played for everyone I saw during a few weeks last summer. At the time, I thought it sounded like the Smashing Pumpkins' "1979", but I'm always surprised when actual events corroborate my opinions, so a solo album by Billy Corgan that more or less sounds like that Dykehouse record is kind of a shock. I never listened to Smashing Pumpkins that much, though; maybe this is where they were headed.

I'd rather this had more hooks and oh, while I'm asking for things, having someone else sing would make me happy. So maybe I don't like this record; I just like some alternate-world shadow of it that listening to it helps me imagine. I do that with a lot of records, though, and I still think this is fun, especially "Mina Loy (M.O.H.)" and "Walking Shade". I hear they play that last one on the radio.